Other winners included German drama ‘Other Cannibals’ and Lithuania’s ‘Runner’.
Andreas Kleinert’s German drama Dear Thomas has been awarded the Grand Prix at the 2021 Black Nights Film Festival, held in the Estonian capital of Tallinn.
The black-and-white historical biopic follows the struggles of East German author and filmmaker Thomas Brasch, played by Albrecht Schuch who was also named best actor at Black Nights’ closing ceremony on Saturday evening (November 27).
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It marks the latest feature of prolific Germany filmmaker Kleinert, known for titles such as Leb Whol, Joseph; Lost Landscape; and Head Under Water,...
Andreas Kleinert’s German drama Dear Thomas has been awarded the Grand Prix at the 2021 Black Nights Film Festival, held in the Estonian capital of Tallinn.
The black-and-white historical biopic follows the struggles of East German author and filmmaker Thomas Brasch, played by Albrecht Schuch who was also named best actor at Black Nights’ closing ceremony on Saturday evening (November 27).
Scroll down for full list of winners
It marks the latest feature of prolific Germany filmmaker Kleinert, known for titles such as Leb Whol, Joseph; Lost Landscape; and Head Under Water,...
- 11/28/2021
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Venues have remained closed since October 2020.
Cinemas in Belgium have been given the greenlight to reopen from June 9 after more than seven months of closures due to the pandemic.
Belgian prime minister Alexander De Croo outlined on Tuesday (May 11) a staged relaxation of restrictions across the summer, as vaccinations roll out across the country.
The hospitality sector and cinemas are in the first phase, from June 9, by which time around 50% of adults in Belgium should be vaccinated, according to De Croo.
A maximum of 200 people will be allowed at indoor events, which must be well ventilated venues, and 400 people at outdoor ones.
Cinemas in Belgium have been given the greenlight to reopen from June 9 after more than seven months of closures due to the pandemic.
Belgian prime minister Alexander De Croo outlined on Tuesday (May 11) a staged relaxation of restrictions across the summer, as vaccinations roll out across the country.
The hospitality sector and cinemas are in the first phase, from June 9, by which time around 50% of adults in Belgium should be vaccinated, according to De Croo.
A maximum of 200 people will be allowed at indoor events, which must be well ventilated venues, and 400 people at outdoor ones.
- 5/12/2021
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Belgian family comedy/drama is the feature debut of Anouk Fortunier. Screen can reveal the first image.
Studio Hamburg has boarded international sales for Anouk Fortunier’s debut feature My Dad Is A Sausage.
The Belgian feature is being presented as a work in progress today at Flanders Image’s CONNeXT event in Ghent.
Dries Phlypo produces for A Private View, which has recent credits including 2019 festival hit The Best Of Dorien B and 2017 Kurdish-Belgian drama Zagros.
The comedy/drama is a co-production between Belgium, the Netherlands (The Film Kitchen) and Germany (Leitwolf Filmproduktion).
Jean-Claude van Rijckeghem wrote the story,...
Studio Hamburg has boarded international sales for Anouk Fortunier’s debut feature My Dad Is A Sausage.
The Belgian feature is being presented as a work in progress today at Flanders Image’s CONNeXT event in Ghent.
Dries Phlypo produces for A Private View, which has recent credits including 2019 festival hit The Best Of Dorien B and 2017 Kurdish-Belgian drama Zagros.
The comedy/drama is a co-production between Belgium, the Netherlands (The Film Kitchen) and Germany (Leitwolf Filmproduktion).
Jean-Claude van Rijckeghem wrote the story,...
- 10/7/2019
- by 1100142¦Wendy Mitchell¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Conference speakers to include Rikke Ennis, Philip Knatchbull and Walter Iuzzolino.
The Broken Circle Breakdown and Tabula Rasa actress Veerle Baetens will pitch her directorial debut, The Melting, at the fourth edition of Flanders Image’s annual film and TV showcase CONNeXT (October 6-9).
The Melting is adapted from Lize Spit’s novel about a woman looking back on one pivotal summer with the two boys who were her best friends in the small Flemish town of Bovenmeer.
CONNeXT invites international experts to Ghent to preview or screen features and TV series made in Flanders and Brussels. In past years,...
The Broken Circle Breakdown and Tabula Rasa actress Veerle Baetens will pitch her directorial debut, The Melting, at the fourth edition of Flanders Image’s annual film and TV showcase CONNeXT (October 6-9).
The Melting is adapted from Lize Spit’s novel about a woman looking back on one pivotal summer with the two boys who were her best friends in the small Flemish town of Bovenmeer.
CONNeXT invites international experts to Ghent to preview or screen features and TV series made in Flanders and Brussels. In past years,...
- 9/16/2019
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Connext pitches for new Flemish films also include cycling drama and plastic surgery-themed horror.
Johan Heldenbergh, best known from Belgian hit The Broken Circle Breakdown, will lead the cast of My Dad Is A Sausage, a family drama pitched today at Flanders Image’s Connext event in Ghent.
Anouk Fortunier will direct what she calls a “buddy movie with a father and daughter”; Heldenbergh plays a father who is depressed in his job as a banker and decides to leave that career to become an actor. His wife, a CEO, is concerned about his plans, but his 11-year-old-daughter Zoe realises...
Johan Heldenbergh, best known from Belgian hit The Broken Circle Breakdown, will lead the cast of My Dad Is A Sausage, a family drama pitched today at Flanders Image’s Connext event in Ghent.
Anouk Fortunier will direct what she calls a “buddy movie with a father and daughter”; Heldenbergh plays a father who is depressed in his job as a banker and decides to leave that career to become an actor. His wife, a CEO, is concerned about his plans, but his 11-year-old-daughter Zoe realises...
- 10/8/2018
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Initiative selects child-focused scripts for development.
The 4th edition of the Cinekid Script Lab, which focuses on the development of scripts for children’s films, has picked 12 projects.
The event takes places over four months, commencing at the child-focused film festival Cinekid in Amsterdam in October and ending at the Berlinale in February.
Six of the selected projects were nominated by partnering institutes, and this year for the first time an open call was issued, with a further six projects chosen from that pool.
Script Lab is backed by Creative Europe’s Media Programme and is organised in partnership with the Flanders Audiovisual Fund, the Finnish Film Foundation, the Icelandic Film Centre, the Netherlands Film Fund, the Norwegian Film Institute and the Swedish Film Institute.
Full list of projects:
Nominated by Norwegian Film Institute
Free
Writers: Guro Ekornholmen, Anniken Fjesme
Production country: Norway
Nominated by Flanders Audiovisual Fund
My Dad Is A Sausage
Writer: Jean-Claude Van Rijckeghem, [link...
The 4th edition of the Cinekid Script Lab, which focuses on the development of scripts for children’s films, has picked 12 projects.
The event takes places over four months, commencing at the child-focused film festival Cinekid in Amsterdam in October and ending at the Berlinale in February.
Six of the selected projects were nominated by partnering institutes, and this year for the first time an open call was issued, with a further six projects chosen from that pool.
Script Lab is backed by Creative Europe’s Media Programme and is organised in partnership with the Flanders Audiovisual Fund, the Finnish Film Foundation, the Icelandic Film Centre, the Netherlands Film Fund, the Norwegian Film Institute and the Swedish Film Institute.
Full list of projects:
Nominated by Norwegian Film Institute
Free
Writers: Guro Ekornholmen, Anniken Fjesme
Production country: Norway
Nominated by Flanders Audiovisual Fund
My Dad Is A Sausage
Writer: Jean-Claude Van Rijckeghem, [link...
- 8/9/2017
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
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